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#1

“As she had done when she introduced the US president in Berlin, she addressed him publicly with the informal du for the first time since the NSA controversy in 2013.”
― Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel

tags: admiration, bonds, controversies, democracy, friends, influential, leaders, policy, research, respec

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#2

“The terrified men did not move. Then Nadia Fedin did something instinctive; she drew her Nagant revolver and fired three short bursts into the head of the nearest soldier. Stepan Ivanovich’s skull burst like a ripe cabbage showering his horrified comrades with viscous brain and bits of bone.”
― KGE Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

tags: atrocities, facts, fiction, history, lies, literature, secrets, war, wartime

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#3

“The television set then came after her, chomping its teeth. Upon reaching the living room, the television succeeded at eating her body bit-by-bit: first the legs, then the body, and finally her flailing arms.”
― Harvey Havel, The Odd and The Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction

tags: action, adult, complex, drama, fiction, literary-fiction, short-stories

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#4

“Once your soil is fertile and weed-free, everything else becomes easier.”
― Charles Dowding, Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing

tags: advice, climate, four-seasons, growing, helpful, how-to, informative, plant-guide, seasons, tips

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#5

“The condition of your soul will determine the condition of your life. Because it determines how you think, what you feel, and what you choose to do.”
― Gregory Dickow, Soul Cure: How to Heal Your Pain and Discover Your Purpose

tags: abmition, awakening, be-happy, believe, change, soul, spirituality, values, wander, writer

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#6

“Just now he was on a mind-blowing adventure and it was rapidly spiralling out of control, and this is what he needed to concentrate his mind on. How could he squeeze Daley to get the book back; that’s if Daley had it in his possession in the first place? The next few days were going to be crucial.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

tags: action, adventure-books, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, fiction, humour, magic, magical-realm, thriller

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#7

“As I sat dumbfounded, seemingly paralyzed in my corner, resorting to my old, reliable strategy of scribbling when unsure of how to respond to Sanjit, Sanjit appended his counsel with a dose of silence – one reminiscent to that of a few days prior. The students looked upward and downward, fans to notes to pens to toes, outward and inward, peers to souls, and of course, toward the direction of the perceived elephant in the room, Sanjit’s books. Simultaneously, Sanjit confidently and patiently searched among the students before finding my eyes; once connected, the lesson moved forward.”
― Colin Phelan, The Local School

tags: betterment, indian-education, journal, learning, life, personal-identity, poetry, soul, truths, value

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#8

“Her growing possessiveness felt both good and bad.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

tags: action-novel, adventure-story, crime, detective-novel, historical-crime-story, intrigue, murder-mystery-novel, mystery-thriller, private-investigator, thriller-novel

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#9

“How did you know to call to me for help?” “I could sense a presence of someone magically powerful and I reached out instinctually.”
― S.G. Blaise, Proud Pada

tags: drama, fantasy, fiction, love, post-apocalyptic, romance, science, space, ya

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#10

“An empty day, though clear and bright,
Is just as dark as any night.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

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#11

“Well, and what was there in that?--Who ever hung his hopes upon so frail a twig?”
― Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

tags: hope, hopelessness

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#12

“All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life. And if you be a philosopher, though seated in the whale-boat, you would not at heart feel one whit more of terror, than though seated before your evening fire with a poker, and not a harpoon, by your side.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

tags: fear, mortality

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#13

“I am not a hero in soul and never will be, but I am better than I was.”
― Andrew Davidson

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#14

“يكشف الفراغ الوجودي عن نفسه أساساً في حالة الملل. على سبيل المثال، ما يعرف ب"عصاب يوم الراحة" (Sunday neurosis)، وهو نوع من الإكتئاب يصيب الأشخاص الذين يصيرون واعين بما ينقص حياتهم من مضمون حينما ينتهي إندفاع الأسبوع المزدحم بالمشاغل و يصبح الفراغ بداخل نفوسهم جلياً”
― فيكتور إيميل فرانكل, Man's Search for Meaning

tags: الفراغ

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#15

“The man more closely resembled a bear than a beggar. He was huge, with a full red beard and a mane of red hair. He entered the cottage without bothering to knock, and as he did so the cottage was illuminated for a moment by an intense red glow. It was just as in Raimund’s dreams.”
― Robert Reid, The Thief

tags: fantasy-fiction, historical-fiction, medieval-fantasy

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#16

“There was no going back now. Rubber and metal could only take so much. The car could shatter and send its passengers into an elemental distillation of rock, flesh, blood, and ash. Alchemy, thought Mary, grimly. Too much bloody alchemy.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

tags: action, adventure, danger, dramatic, fast-paced, fear, insight, mystery, trauma

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#17

“Throughout the process, you must show gratitude to those who have helped you get to where you are.”
― Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

tags: anecdotes, challenge, decisions, faith, fortitude, living-with-pain, overcome, survive, triumph

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#18

“One of the enemy’s blueprints for our lives has to do with timing; he finds you at the most vulnerable moment in your walk with the Lord. That is part of the blueprint he uses upon believers today.”
― John Ramirez, Conquer Your Deliverance: How to Live a Life of Total Freedom

tags: biblical, christ, christian, christian-spiritual-growth, christianity, deliverance-from-evil, faith-in-god, spiritual, spiritual-freedom, spiritual-welfare

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#19

“When the light reached its zenith, the group of 1,000 Travelers down below could no longer be seen. Suddenly, the intense light ceased to be, returning the lighting of the stadium to a normal level. Dani felt a moment of disorientation, but she soon recovered and looked down at an empty stadium.”
― Steven Decker, Time Chain

tags: adventure, compelling, complex, fiction, metaphysical, romance, sci-fi, science, science-fiction, time-travel

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#20

“God is the Cure, Love is the Answer”
― Aimee Cabo Nikolov, God is the Cure, Love is the Answer : A Memoir

tags: abuse, betrayal, devine, fight, god, hope, life, strength, truth, unrest

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#21

“It was not just the need for blood that drove the virus. It also needed death.”
― Eli Wilde, My Unbeating Heart

tags: action, drama, fast-paced, fiction, intense, literary-fiction, suspense, thriller

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#22

“AI won‘t be fool proof in the future since it will only as good as the data and information that we give it to learn. It could be the case that simple elementary tricks could fool the AI algorithm and it may serve a complete waste of output as a result.”
― Zoltan Andrejkovics, Together: AI and Human. On The Same Side.

tags: ai, artificial-intelligence

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#23

“It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong. And whoever attempts it, even with the best right, but without being OBLIGED to do so, proves that he is probably not only strong, but also daring beyond measure. He enters into a labyrinth, he multiplies a thousandfold the dangers which life in itself already brings with it; not the least of which is that no one can see how and where he loses his way, becomes isolated, and is torn piecemeal by some minotaur of conscience. Supposing such a one comes to grief, it is so far from the comprehension of men that they neither feel it, nor sympathize with it. And he cannot any longer go back! He cannot even go back again to the sympathy of men!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

tags: independence, independent, individual

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#24

“It seems wrong and unfair that Christmas, with its stressful and unmanageable financial and emotional challenges, should first be forced upon one wholly against one's will, then rudely snatched away just when one is starting to get into it. Was really beginning to enjoy the feeling that normal service was suspended and it was OK to lie in bed as long as you want, put anything you fancy into your mouth, and drink alcohol whenever it should chance to pass your way, even in the mornings. Now suddenly we are all supposed to snap into self-discipline like lean teenage greyhounds.”
― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

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#25

“What about me?” I asked. “Am I mean?” “You aren’t mean to me with words,” she said. “You’re mean to me with your silences.”
― Sherman Alexie, You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

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#26

“THE FOX AND THE CROW

A Crow was sitting on a branch of a tree with a piece of cheese in her beak when a Fox observed her and set his wits to work to discover some way of getting the cheese. Coming and standing under the tree he looked up and said, "What a noble bird I see above me! Her beauty is without equal, the hue of her plumage exquisite. If only her voice is as sweet as her looks are fair, she ought without doubt to be Queen of the Birds." The Crow was hugely flattered by this, and just to show the Fox that she could sing she gave a loud caw. Down came the cheese, of course, and the Fox, snatching it up, said, "You have a voice, madam, I see: what you want is wits.”
― Aesop, Aesop's Fables

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